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As you have settled into your practice, you probably realize that our

darma practice or darma path is really a path of opening.

We're opening to our bodies,

going from a sense of the body as being something solid, to being aware of particular sensations

that are rising, to becoming aware at times of the body as a fluid energy field without any solidity at all.

You know, we're opening our sense doors.

You've probably noticed, at least at different times, how our sense perceptions can get very refined.

You have nuances. can get very refined. There are nuances of colored nuances of sound, of taste.

And somewhere we're really opening the doors of our senses.

We're opening to a certain depth and range of emotions. You know both pleasant ones and unpleasant ones

begin to feel you and gratitude and aversion and irritation and sadness and happiness and

the whole range, the different emotions that can arise.

We're opening our minds through a release

of so many different kinds of thoughts and images and memories.

I'm sure you've had the experience of thinking of things perhaps you haven't

thought of in many many years.

I was going to say in maybe 30 or 40 years, but some of you are not yet 30. So maybe you're

remembering some past life thoughts. And it's opening to different levels of silence, you know, really beginning to appreciate and

experience different levels of silence.

I think I may have mentioned that my first teacher,

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